Language change - 20th/21st century
- Created by: Hayley Petts
- Created on: 19-05-14 17:25
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- Language Change - 20th/21st century
- Technology
- TV created in 1927
- lead to the corruption of accents while RP was introduced
- Text/mobiles - 1992
- "text speak"
- Abbreviations e.g. LOL
- Emoticons :)
- Internet 1992/1993
- wider access to information via search engines e.g. Google
- changes to spelling
- emails
- spell check launched in 1981
- TV created in 1927
- Education
- 1970s more opportunities for women e.g. more female literature and journalism
- 1918 - school leaving age raised to 14
- Historical Events
- 'Hippie' era 1960s - informal language use, colloquial and Americanized
- Neologism - occupation and technological advances
- 1955 - Black Civil Rights Movement in America
- fading of politically incorrect words. some used taboo deliberately to rebel
- Cultural changes - less discrimination against certain groups
- Affects grammatical choices and register
- WW1 created social leveling - due to inscription
- Media
- Popularity of tabloids - informal lexical choices, hyperbole, abbreviations
- Blogs became popular in 1997
- Language more personal and use of informal registers
- Rising popularity of reality TV
- Broadcast the idiolect/dialect of certain areas that previously didn't cross over too often
- TOWIE - "Well Jell"
- Broadcast the idiolect/dialect of certain areas that previously didn't cross over too often
- Immigration
- introduction of American rap music - continued Americanisation
- Globalisation - British Empire became dominant
- Invention of railway + cars
- People could travel around Britain - regional accents weren't as self contained and became diluted
- Acts of Parliament
- Equal Franchise Act 1928 - gave legal rights to women e.g. vote
- Equal Pay Act 1970 - entitled women the same pay as men doing the same job
- Equality Act 2010 - cover discrimination for nine "protected characteristics
- Age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, and Gender
- Technology
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